A Thirst For Wine And War
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A Thirst For Wine And War
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Author : Adam D. Zientek
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2024-02-13
A Thirst For Wine And War written by Adam D. Zientek and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-13 with History categories.
Beginning in the fall of 1914, every French soldier on the Western Front received a daily ration of wine from the army. At first it was a modest quarter litre, but by 1917 it had increased to the equivalent of a full bottle each day. The wine ration was intended to sustain morale in the trenches, making the men more willing to endure suffering and boredom. The army also supplied soldiers with doses of distilled alcohol just before attacks to increase their ferocity and fearlessness. This strategic distribution of alcohol was a defining feature of French soldiers’ experiences of the war and amounted to an experimental policy of intoxicating soldiers for military ends. A Thirst for Wine and War explores the French army’s emotional and behavioural conditioning of soldiers through the distribution of a mind-altering drug that was later hailed as one of the army’s “fathers of victory.” The daily wine ration arose from an unexpected set of factors including the demoralization of trench warfare, the wine industry’s fear of losing its main consumers, and medical consensus about the benefits of wine drinking. The army’s related practice of distributing distilled alcohol to embolden soldiers was a double-edged sword, as the men might become unruly. The army implemented regulations and surveillance networks to curb men’s drinking behind the lines, in an attempt to ensure they only drank when it was useful to the war effort. When morale collapsed in spring 1917, the army lost control of this precarious system as drunken soldiers mutinied in the thousands. Discipline was restored only when the army regained command of soldiers’ alcohol consumption. Drawing on a range of archives, personal narratives, and trench journals, A Thirst for Wine and War shows how the French army’s intoxication of its soldiers constituted a unique exercise of biopower deployed on a mass scale.
Wine And War
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Author : Donald & Petie Kladstrup
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Wine And War written by Donald & Petie Kladstrup and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the vineyards, wine caves, and cellars of France as war and occupation came to the country winemakers acted heroically not only to save the best wines but to defend their way of life. These are the true stories of vignerons who sheltered Jewish refugees in their cellars and of winemakers who risked their lives to aid the resistance. They made chemicals in secret laboratories to fuel the resistance and fled from the Gestapo when arrests became imminent. There were treacheries too, as some of the nation's winemakers supported the Vichy regime or the Germans themselves and collaborated. Donald Kladstrup is a retired American network correspondent. He and his wife Petie have accumulated these fascinating stories, told with the pace and action that will fascinate fiction and non-fiction readers alike.
Wine And War
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Author : Don Kladstrup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01
Wine And War written by Don Kladstrup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01 with France categories.
Wine & War tells the little-known story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious and often daring measures to save their finest and most precious wines as the Nazis closed in on them.
Summary Of Don Petie Kladstrup S Wine And War
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-07-17T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Don Petie Kladstrup S Wine And War written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-17T22:59:00Z with History categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The French were again faced with the agonizing prospect of trying to get their harvest in before their vineyards were turned into battlefields. The government mounted an extraordinary campaign to help them. #2 The winemaking families in France were extremely worried about another war, and many thought that France could not afford to lose another war. But Maurice Drouhin, a veteran of trench warfare, escaped physical injury but not the nightmares that haunted him for years afterward. #3 The life of a grape grower was one of legend and myth. It was a life that had changed little since the Middle Ages. The harvest was the happiest time of the year, as workers gathered wildflowers to decorate the cart and make a bouquet for the lady of the house. #4 The Great Depression struck France just as the wine industry was recovering from the effects of phylloxera, a tiny insect that attacks the roots of grapevines. The disease had spread to every vineyard in France in the nineteenth century, and it took many years for growers to find a cure.
Thirsty Dragon
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Author : Suzanne Mustacich
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2015-11-10
Thirsty Dragon written by Suzanne Mustacich and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Business & Economics categories.
An inside view of China's quest to become a global wine power and Bordeaux's attempt to master the thirsty dragon it helped create The wine merchants of Bordeaux and the rising entrepreneurs of China would seem to have little in common—old world versus new, tradition versus disruption, loyalty versus efficiency. And yet these two communities have found their destinies intertwined in the conquest of new markets, as Suzanne Mustacich shows in this provocative account of how China is reshaping the French wine business and how Bordeaux is making its mark on China. Thirsty Dragon lays bare the untold story of how an influx of Chinese money rescued France's most venerable wine region from economic collapse, and how the result was a series of misunderstandings and crises that threatened the delicate infrastructure of Bordeaux's insular wine trade. The Bordelais and the Chinese do business according to different and often incompatible sets of rules, and Mustacich uncovers the competing agendas and little-known actors who are transforming the economics and culture of Bordeaux, even as its wines are finding new markets—and ever higher prices—in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong, with Hong Kong and London traders playing a pivotal role. At once a tale of business skullduggery and fierce cultural clashes, adventure, and ambition, Thirsty Dragon offers a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges facing the world's most famous and prestigious wines.
Champagne
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Author : Don Kladstrup
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2010-04-29
Champagne written by Don Kladstrup and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-29 with Cooking categories.
The authors of the international bestseller Wine and War chronicle the untold dramatic history of Champagne from the 13th century through the crucibles of two world wars to the 21st century Throughout history, waves of invaders including Franks, Visigoths, Burgundians, Merovingians, Barbarians, Alamanshave swept across the verdant region of Champagne in southern France. Yet this region, which historians say has suffered more invasions, battles, and wars than any other place on earth, is also the birthplace of the one ingredient that above all others epitomizes joy: champagne. Gallant Harvest tells the fascinating, little-known story of champagne, the world’s favorite wine. Don and Petie Kladstrup share how a sparkling beverage that was the toast of Belle Epoque society not only survived the bloodbath of World War I, but grew even more popular in the war’s wake. Thorughout they introduce gutsy, larger-than-life characters determined to preserve their land and their grapes; vintners for whom champagne is not only their heritage and livelihood but a part of their souls and the soul of their nation.
Wine Of War
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Author : E. G. Cousins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Wine Of War written by E. G. Cousins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with categories.
Wine War
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Author : Don Kladstrup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Wine War written by Don Kladstrup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Large type books categories.
The War On Wine
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Author : Victor W. Geraci
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2023-11-07
The War On Wine written by Victor W. Geraci and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-07 with Cooking categories.
The development of an American wine ethos. The history of wine is a tale of capitalist production and consumer experience, and early Americans embraced the idea of having their own wine culture. But many began to believe that excessive alcohol consumption had become a moral, ethical, economic, political, social, and health conundrum. The result was a national on-again, off-again relationship with the concept of an American wine culture. Citizens struggled to build a wine culture patterned after their diasporic European custom of wine as a moderating beverage that was part of a healthy diet. Yet, as America grew, untold attempts to create a wine culture failed due to climate, pests, diseases, wars, and depressions, resulting in some people considering the nation an alcoholic republic. Thus began an anti-alcohol culture war aimed at restricting or prohibiting alcoholic beverages. With the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition), a culture war started between wet and dry proponents. After the repeal of Prohibition, the decimated wine industry responded by forming the Wine Institute to rebrand wine’s role in American society, after which neoprohibitionists attempted to restrict alcohol availability and consumption. To confront these aggressive actions, the Wine Institute hired politically trained John A. De Luca to navigate the new attacks and pushed for rebranding wine as a cultural spirit with health benefits.
Hungry For Wine
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Author : Cathy Huyghe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-09-16
Hungry For Wine written by Cathy Huyghe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-16 with categories.
Get ready to find some things you never expected to find in a book about wine.Things like regrets, migrant labor, war, financial crises, and post-apartheid economics.Things, too, like following a calling, and doing something even though it makes no sense, and creating the life you imagine for yourself.For the people you'll meet in these twelve chapters, wine does so much more than quench thirst. Wine is how they express themselves to the world. It's how they put food on the table for their families. It's how they carve their niche. Sometimes it's even their tool to fight repression and discrimination.Hungry for Wine is also a memoir about how the author went from simply liking the taste of wine, to tasting it every day, to writing about it 365 days a year, to traveling the world in search of the people and the stories in this book.Some people see the world in a grain of sand. Now you can see it in a glass of wine.This book will change the way you look at wine. Forever.
